The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-12
STRUGGLES FOR LIFE.
Unfortunate Victims OF Various Cir
eumstances.
ENTOMBED MINERS


ENTOMBED MINERS.
NEW YORK, May "a special from
Nanaimo, B. c., to the Herald dated
yesterday, says: Thirty-five bodies
were found to-day up to noon. Six
teen white men have been brought to
the surface. More bodies are coming
up. A shovel was found, on which
was written with chalk: Thirteen
hours and now dying in misery
(signed1 John Evans" This was a
young fellow % years of age. Thus
the men were evidently conscious
thirteen hours after the explosion and
some may have survived five or six
hours longer. They were all found on
No. 1 level. They had come as far as
the halfway switch and had found a
cave-in and the air bad. They then set
to work with picks and shovels
and barricaded the passage to
turned to the air shaft where the fire.
damp had caught them and all sue
cumbed. They had tried to barTicade
this passage also, but did not succeed
very well. The poor fellows had made
a desperate struggle for life. The fire
is now nearly under control, and it is
hoped that all the bodies will be recov-
cred within the next few days. No
more will likely be discovered to-day.
Nothing has been seen to-day on the
streets but people moving reStleSsly
back and forth between the mine and
town and all kinds of wagons bearing
the linen wrapped corpses to their late
homes or funeral professions vending
their way to the cemetery.
AN UNKNOWN VESSEL SUNK.
NEW YORK, May "a large num-
Der of vessels were detained both inside
and outside of the bar yesterday by a
dense fog which prevailed all day. AS
is usual in such cases collisions of more
or less violence may be expected to oc-
cur. 1t is rIImored that an unknown
bark was sunk during the day in God
ney's Channel, off Sandy Hook, by a
steamer; also that an unknown steamer
and tug boat when last seen were re-
ported to be lying by the wreck, in
which case the crew of the Sunken YES
sci were probably rescued.
DRAGGED TO DEATH.
SToNEWALL, Col, May 9.-Fannie
Murray, aged 10, left home early Sat
urday morning to visit her brother. AT
a point about half mile from home,
she alighted from her hOrfe to open a
gate, and in remounting the saddle
turned, frightening the broncho, which
SIdFIcus WdSBlHS Cno SHl dSlOSs
the fields by her foot, which was
fastened in the stirrup. Some two miles
distant from the gate the horse and
rider we're found side by side, the girl
dead with nearly every vestige of cloth
ing stripped from her except her shawl
which was wrapped tightly about heI
head and grasped firmly in her teeth.
The broncho was nearly dead from ex-
haustion. Mr.. Murray and family
came here few years since from BoS-
ton.
RAPE FIEND LYNCHED.
NEW YORK, May "a special from
Tarboro, n. c., to the Herald says
Much excitement prevails in thisssec-
that took place Saturday night, the
first in the history of the country
Ben Hart, negro 10 years old, was ar
rested for attempted criminal assault
on April 9th, on a 16-year-old white
girl. in which great brutality was dis
played. The feeling against him raI
so high that Judge Shipp, holding
court, ordered him taken to Williams
town for safe keeping. Time and dis
tance only served to iniame the people
and Saturday night the engineer on Z
material train lying over at Rocky
Mount, seventeen miles from here, wa.
compelled by sixty armed and masked
men to take his engine and two coaches
and convey the party to WILLIAMSBURG
There some of the party surrounded
| the Sheriff's residence to prevent AM
communication, while the remainder
broke into the jail and dragged fortl
Hart. He was then brought back her
| and near the scene of the crime wa
hung to tree.
! AN UNHEALTHY CLIMATE FOR THIEVES
NEW YORK, Maya New Orleans
special says: West CarraH Parish, II
| which a mob burned the store O
Semon Witkowsh and drove him iron
1 the Parish a few months ago. wa
again the scene of mob violence. Las
| Thursday mob at Floyd seized upoI
/ Richard Goodwin and Grace Blanton
each colored, and hanged them to ;
| tree for robbing the store of n. Balm
/ II is said that while mob violence i
| deprecated by the people the action o
| this particular mob is not condemnet
because, as local correspondent
naively SAYS, there is no doubt OF tn
guilt of the accused persons, tn
woman having confessed, and tn
goods having been found In the poses
/ sion of the victims. 1t Is not states
that they were confirmed criminals o
that the people became exasperated a
their continued depredatiOns. The
simply robbed store and Wer
hanged.
THE PANHANDLE THIEVES.
| PTrsBURa, May 9.-The PanhandI
/ Railroad robbery cases. were taken u
II II. the criminal fsoTIrf, this uaOFniDo